Today was a gorgeous fall Montana day - 70 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze! We spent the afternoon at the fall festival put on by the Lighthouse Christian Home. Jeff is a board member for this neat facility with 12 or so adult residents with developmental disabilities. The residents are very active in the community and in their church, as well as maintaining many farm animals & a garden, participating in Special Olympics, and the list goes on. Jeff was out yesterday and this morning preparing the "cow chip bingo" game which included painting squares in the pasture (pick a square for $5 and if the cow "deposits" his chip in your square you split the profits of the game with Lighthouse). In the process, he also got to chase the cow which "escaped" from the designated pasture while he was working :)!!! He has really had his chance to bond with the animals around there . . . notice him holding the duck in the picture - what a good sport :)! The kids had a blast playing games, going for hay rides, climbing on hay bales, listening to great music, and watching all the interesting animals. Keith and Jacob and their buddy Garrett came up to proclaim loudly to a group of us adults that they watched a chicken lay an egg!!! They thought it was the coolest thing that they got to watch it occur!!! Kara was quite petrified by the "cow with horns", and Simon got "kissed" by his favorite animal, the horse. The fun they both had, though, outweighed the "terrors".
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That looks like fun! I especially like the picture of Jeff holding the duck!
Our Sarah is having a carnival theme for Rowan and Milla's combined birthday party. Last year she did a barnyard theme, so maybe in combination, she could work in cow chip bingo! Imagine the fun middle schoolers would have with that!
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